The first-person shooter game “Doom” has been ported to so many different consoles and computers that modders have had to find new places to port the game to, like autonomous lawnmowers, digestive bacteria, and even Doom II itself.
Not as popular or as playable as the other ports, the Sega Saturn port came out nearly four years after the game’s release. Jeff Gerstmann of Gamespot called the Sega Saturn version of Doom a game that had just about everything that could reasonably be called a bad game: “completely worthless,” “uninteresting,” “jerky,” and “to be avoided at all costs.”
Bo, a self-described Sega Saturn game reverse engineer, gave the Sega Saturn version of Doom another chance and discovered some in-game cheat codes that had been lying dormant for over a decade. He posted the secret cheat codes he discovered on X.
Here’s a cheat code for the Saturn version of DOOM that appears to have gone unnoticed since 1997. Pause the game and press the following keys:
X, right, B, Y, X, right, B, Y
The wall becomes semi-transparent. See the before/after photos below. pic.twitter.com/iLRDwEr46M
— Bo (Low Context Burning Ranger) (@memory_fallen) September 10, 2024
The button combination X, Right, B, Y, X, Right, B, Y allows you to see through the Martian substations and the walls of Hell, and it’s a shame that the game doesn’t have any cheat codes that let you see a better version of Doom.
